In Pictures: The year in madly cool robots

An investigation using a robot, named "Quince2," on the 5th operating floor of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)'s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant's No. 2 reactor building in Fukushima prefecture in February 2012.

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